Republican Party has been civil rights' true historical champion

Republicans have been the true advocates of civil rights since before Lincoln.

Democrats supported the 1857 Dred Scott decision and formed the Ku Klux Klan in 1866, of which Robert Byrd was later a member. Their 1894 Repeal Act overturned the Republican Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875. The leader of the Republican-sponsored NAACP in 1909 was a Republican black man.

Democrats preach racial tolerance, but have denigrated conservative African Americans from Justice Clarence Thomas to Herman Cain. Then-Gov. Bill Clinton was sued for job discrimination. Race relations have worsened under the “post-racial president”. Claiming whites can’t stand a black man in the White House is absurd considering 47 percent of them voted for Obama.

Joe Biden’s remark to African Americans that Romney “is gonna put y’all back in chains” is both ludicrous and inflammatory. Romney’s reference to his young sons as “boys” was deemed an affront to a black president.

Senator Obama funded heavy contributing Chicago slum lords. Recent cancelling of welfare work requirements removes tax dollars for inner-city job training. He eliminated funding for historically black colleges and universities and school choice scholarships for inner-city District of Columbia, while the Obama children go to the best private institutions.

In his book “Dreams From My Father,” Obama refers to Democratic political treatment of minorities as “plantation politics.”

This historical and well-planned pattern of deception and pandering to minorities should be considered by them on Nov. 6.